The Best Beauty Surgeons

Bazaar's Hot List: 24 doctors on the cutting edge

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While skin-smoothing lasers, peels, Botox, and other wrinkle erasers are incredibly fast-growing noninvasive procedures (and are performed regularly by most of the plastic and cosmetic surgeons listed here), going under the knife remains the gold standard if you're looking to significantly rejuvenate your face and body. This list is composed of doctors whose names are currently being whispered at dinner parties and texted between friends; it is but a small sample of the thousands of physicians in the U.S. who performed nearly 1.6 million cosmetic surgical procedures in 2012. The top five requests: breast augmentation, nose reshaping, eyelid surgery, liposuction, and face-lift.

While skin-smoothing lasers, peels, Botox, and other wrinkle erasers are incredibly fast-growing noninvasive procedures (and are performed regularly by most of the plastic and cosmetic surgeons listed here), going under the knife remains the gold standard if you're looking to significantly rejuvenate your face and body. This list is composed of doctors whose names are currently being whispered at dinner parties and texted between friends; it is but a small sample of the thousands of physicians in the U.S. who performed nearly 1.6 million cosmetic surgical procedures in 2012. The top five requests: breast augmentation, nose reshaping, eyelid surgery, liposuction, and face-lift.

CALIFORNIA

AARON ROLLINS, Beverly Hills; elitebodysculpture.com BUZZ: Rollins is the guy who reshapes Hollywood's A-list bodies by sucking out fat in all the right places. The 48-Hour Six Pack is popular.

RAJ KANODIA, Beverly Hills; drkanodia.com BUZZ: In demand for the artistry he brings to his rhinoplasties, Kanodia sculpted all those celebrities who claim they haven't had nose jobs.

LISA B. CASSILETH, Beverly Hills; drcassileth.com BUZZ: A sizable part of Cassileth's business is fixing other surgeons' mistakes as well as breast reconstruction work.

STEVEN TEITELBAUM, Santa Monica; drteitelbaum.com BUZZ: Teitelbaum is known for his breast and tummy work (and his keen sense of aesthetic balance), and his patients don't look "done."

JENNIFER L. WALDEN, Austin; drjenniferwalden.com BUZZ: After training with top New York docs, Walden has a waiting list in Texas for a variety of face and body surgeries, including labiaplasty. ROD J. ROHRICH, Dallas; drrohrich.com BUZZ: Rohrich is famous for his focus on elegantly refining features (as opposed to drastic change).